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Rage Against The Machine - Renegades

Rage Against The Machine - Renegades album cover

Rage Against The Machine - Renegades on LP vinyl. A 2000 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

LP ยท 2000

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 2000 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.

Renegades is Rage Against The Machine's 2000 covers album, released at the end of the band's original run and shaped by the strange timing of a group interpreting influences as it was coming apart. The idea could have become a simple tribute exercise, but Rage make the origin point material sound like part of their own political and rhythmic genealogy. Microphone Fiend connects them to Eric B. & Rakim; Pistol Grip Pump pulls from Volume 10; Kick Out The Jams reaches back to The MC5; Renegades Of Funk honours Afrika Bambaataa; How I Could Just Kill A Man links to Cypress Hill; The Ghost Of Tom Joad brings Bruce Springsteen's migrant lament into the band's heavier language; Maggie's Farm turns Bob Dylan's refusal into industrial-strength defiance. The 2000 context matters because Zack de la Rocha's departure was announced before the album's release, leaving Renegades as both a map of influences and an accidental closing statement. It shows that Rage's politics were not ornamental. They heard rebellion across hip-hop, punk, folk, funk and rock, then rebuilt it as their own voltage.

Renegades matters because it reveals Rage Against The Machine's lineage rather than just their record collection. By transforming songs from hip-hop, punk, folk-rock and funk into their own sound, the band made a final studio-era argument about continuity between musical rebellion and political resistance.

For collectors, Renegades is the distinctive final studio album from Rage's original era. It is not a conventional covers set to file separately from the main catalogue; it functions as a closing document, influence map and hard-edged companion to the band's three original studio albums.

Rage-style covers with funk-metal riffs, hip-hop cadence, punk urgency, heavy groove, Morello guitar mutations, militant vocals and familiar protest songs rebuilt as loud, compressed confrontation.

Recommended for: Rage Against The Machine collectors completing the original studio run; Listeners interested in covers albums that radically transform the origin point material; Fans of political music lineages across hip-hop, punk, folk and funk.

When was Renegades released? Renegades was released in 2000 as Rage Against The Machine's fourth studio album. Is Renegades made of original songs? No. Renegades is a covers album, with Rage Against The Machine reworking material associated with artists including Afrika Bambaataa, The MC5, Cypress Hill, Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan. Why is Renegades important in the Rage catalogue? It arrived at the end of the band's original run and acts as both an influence map and a final studio-era statement.